Clara Southern b. 3 October 1860

Also known as Panther, Mrs John Flinn
  • Artist (Painter)
Clara Southern, painter, studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's Art Schools in 1883-87 under Frederick McCubbin and George Folingsby. Fellow students included Josephine Muntz-Adams, Jane Sutherland, A.M.E. Vale, Emanuel Phillips Fox and Arthur Streeton. Nicknamed 'Panther' for her lithe beauty, Clara Southern was admitted in 1886 as one of the early women members of the students' Buonarotti
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Citations

  • UK GRO birth certificates (1866), 'Birth, marriage and death certificates’, United Kingdom.

    https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp

  • Clark, Jane; & Whitelaw, Bridget (1985), 'Golden Summers’, Melbourne, Vic : National Gallery of Victoria Exhibition catalogue.

  • Duke, Anne (1990), 'Clara Southern (1860 – 1940)’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, [Volume 12], Melbourne University Press, [22].

  • Hammond, Victoria; & Peers, Juliet (1992), 'Completing the Picture’, East Hawthorn, Vic : Artmoves.

  • McCulloch, Alan; & McCulloch, Susan (1994), 'The Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, St Leonards, NSW : Allen & Unwin (3rd Edition, revised and updated).

  • (2 August 1889), Melbourne, Vic : Table Talk.

  • Burke, Janine (1980), 'Australian Women Artists 1840-1940’, Collingwood, Vic : Greenhouse Publications.

See also

  • 'PORTRAIT: Portrait of Clara Southern c.1928, oil on canvas by Isabel Hunter Tweddle (Deakin University).'.
  • 'Section 5, plate 188'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

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